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12/26/13, "Professor admits faking AIDS vaccine to get $19M in grants," NY Post, Andy Soltis
"An Iowa State University professor resigned after admitting he
falsely claimed rabbit blood could be turned into a vaccine for the AIDS
virus.
Dr. Dong-Pyou Han spiked a clinical test sample with healthy human
blood to make it appear that the rabbit serum produced disease-fighting
antibodies, officials said.
The bogus findings helped Han’s team obtain $19 million in research
grants from the National Institutes of Health, said James Bradac, who
oversees the institutes’ AIDS research.
The remarkable findings were reported in scientific journals but
raised suspicions when other researchers could not duplicate Han’s
results.
The NIH uncovered the scam when it checked the rabbit serum at a lab and found the human antibodies.
Han resigned from his university post as an assistant professor of
biomedical studies in October. His case came to light this week when it
was reported in the Federal Register.
Han agreed last month not to seek government contracts for three years, the register said." via Free Republic
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